After reading last Sunday's paper, I feel compelled to agree that the Beaumont ISD needs to hire a CPA to head up its school finances along with a bonding agency to help replace any monies lost due to a theft in the future. The BISD has already lost $2 million (in funds it didn't try to retrieve) from electrician Calvin Walker. I am sure that when the investigators finish, we will find there is a large amount of money gone again.

I feel that the BISD should go online with the finical records of spending that will allow the taxpayers to know where our money is going. This has been brought up before but the trustees claimed that there was no need to do this. But now we can see that there is a need for it.

Superintendent Timothy Chargois need to show us more than words. We need action, and now.

Charles F. Alford, Beaumont

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DEMOCRATS FORGOT JFK'S MESSAGE

I find it somewhat ironic, as we observed the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination and heard the "ask not" quote from the famous speech he made, that we can look around and see that the Democratic Party has evolved into the party that now asks, "How much more can the government give me?"

Thad Singleton, Orange

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NATION NEEDS CRUZ CONTROL

In your editorial last weekend headlined, "Sen. Cruz is no JFK," your views on Sen. Ted Cruz are clear. However, I see no relationship to Ted Cruz's respectful recognition of JFK's political views and accomplishments as published in the National Review Online.

You used the word "obstructing" in reference to Ted Cruz. You didn't mention the word "surrender," which has become the norm within the old-school "inside the beltway" Republicans.

I for one am excited to see Ted Cruz and some others not "surrender" to those many in office today whose mission it seems is to promote a larger and larger government; whose mission is more self-promotion than American greatness.

Perhaps Ted Cruz was reaching across the aisle to a time in the American past where the Democratic President Kennedy said "The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hands of God."